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Abstract
Despite growing recognition of the links between poverty and child maltreatment, little is known about the specific practices and strategies utilized to directly respond to families’ poverty. One such practice is the provision of material assistance, which is widespread in child protection settings but has received negligible scholarly attention. The article aims to describe and conceptualize this underresearched practice and to explore the challenges workers face when implementing it. The study described here included 20 in-depth interviews conducted with social workers working…
UNICEF’s Office of Research is a dedicated independent research arm for UNICEF located in Florence, Italy. A large portion of the evaluation work done in the office focuses on Government supported cash transfer programs and their impacts on wellbeing of families, women and children. This webinar reviews some of the new and ongoing work conducted under the Transfer Project, a multi-organizational research and learning initiative, presented by Social Policy and Humanitarian specialists Amber Peterman, Tia Palermo and Jacob de Hoop. The first presentation will…
This is a Call to Action issued by the Doha International Family Institute commemorating the International Year of the Family. This document calls on governments to: develop policies that promote stable and empowered families; promote gender equality; recognize the contribution and responsibility of men to families; focus poverty alleviation strategies on the family as a unit; adopt policies to ensure work-family balance; value important contributions of all generations within the family; ensure the systematic collection of data and statistics on family well-being; develop and implement…